Will AppleScript do this?

My uncle is a lawyer and he's arguing in some court that has a webcast. My grandmother wants to see the feed desperately and will be the only one at home when it is on. Is there anyway I can use applescript (the main computer in my house only has Panther) so that the link (which I have put on the desktop) will open at a certain time and just go?

drag the link to the desktop, so that double clicking opens the URL. then you can open up ical, and set up a new event, and make the alarm (set to 0 minutes before) opening that file. then it'll open at whatever time you set up.

Or if you wanted to do it the way you originally described then you could just set up an ical event that launches the file that is a bookmark to that page. Or you could write a simple html page that uses 2 frames and the refresh tag so she could just double click the html file you wrote and it would load that page you want and then it would continually reload at whatever interval you specify. There are lots of ways you could do it depending on exactly what you want to achieve. Think outside the 6 sided polyhedron.

tell application "Safari"
repeat
activate
open location "URL of website. must be full URL and include http://"
delayput the amount of minutes you want to go by before refreshing multiplied by 60 here
end repeat
end tell

Now go to File>save as, give it a name, make sure to save it as an Application, deselect the "Run Only", Startup Screen" and "Stay Open" check boxes. Hit save.
Navigate to the place where you saved it and double click it.
Safari will now open the specified web-page and refresh at the specified interval!

Unfortunately Im not a very good scripter, so unless you put a number after "repeat" (example: repeat 5) it will keep repeating into infinity.
The only way to stop the beast is to use the command, option esc and force quit it......

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